MARCH PAST OF BRITISH COMMONWEALTH OCCUPATION FORCES AT SINGAPORE

Synopsis

Troops bound for Japan as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) parade at the Municipal Building in Singapore, and the salute is taken by the Supreme Allied Commander Lord Louis Mountbatten, and the BCOF commander Major-General David Cowan.

View from the steps of the Municipal Building in Singapore with Mountbatten, Cowan and other officers in the foreground and the pipe band of the 1st Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders marching past.…

Troops bound for Japan as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) parade at the Municipal Building in Singapore, and the salute is taken by the Supreme Allied Commander Lord Louis Mountbatten, and the BCOF commander Major-General David Cowan.

View from the steps of the Municipal Building in Singapore with Mountbatten, Cowan and other officers in the foreground and the pipe band of the 1st Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders marching past. Profile medium close-up of Mountbatten at the salute. Shot of a Gurkha unit, probably 2nd Battalion 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles, marching away from camera; hats are distinctively angled, kukris prominently on their belts and rifles at the trail. Mountbatten meets members of the Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma), known as the 'Wasbies', bound for Japan with the occupation force. Mountbatten departs by staff car with Brigadier McKerron, Deputy Chief Civil Affairs Officer. View of the head of the parade with the band marching towards camera. Crossing Anderson Bridge over the Singapore River; some small children run alongside. Kilted Cameron Highlanders passing with bayonets fixed. Mountbatten at the salute; there are a number of photographers, some of them women, crowded behind him. Mountbatten saluting with the troops passing beyond him. Very brief shot of the regimental colour party passing.

Notes

Women's units named on the dopesheet for JFU 566 include the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, Women's Voluntary Service, Indian Young Women's Christian Association, as well as WAS(B) and ENSA.

For other film of this parade, and film showing this battalion of Cameron Highlanders in Hong Kong, en route to Japan, see related items.

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